Baseball Insider Archive: Indians

Everyone who saw Detroit Tigers right-hander Armando Galarraga lose his perfect game in excruciating fashion will agree on three things: *Umpire Jim Joyce blew the call. *Galarraga deserved a perfect game. *And something needs to be done. The knee-jerk proposals for what should be done in the wake of Joyce's...

Armando Galarraga of the Detroit Tigers lost his bid for a perfect game Wednesday night with two outs in the ninth inning on a call that first base umpire Jim Joyce later admitted he blew. Highlights: CLE/DET "I just cost that kid a perfect game," Joyce said. "I thought he...

How, exactly, did rebounding pregame jump shots for Allen Iverson and filling Gatorade cups for Othella Harrington prepare Chris Antonetti for a career as the general manager of a Major League Baseball team? Let's just say the effect was indirect. "It was an unbelievable experience," said Antonetti, who served as...

Michael Brantley may have too much time on his hands, and given the struggles of the Indians, are we actually sure that learning how to balance bats in the dugout is really the best use of his time? Oh, the things you can do on a Tuesday night in September in Minneapolis.

For years it's been said that National League hitting is inferior to that of the American League but in the past few weeks it seems like pitchers who have recently left the AL for the NL are having their way with the senior circuit.